Janet Reno's Troubles

By: Geoff Metcalf

The "most ethical administration" has produced an unending litany of scandals, a pattern of
corruption, and more lies than a political convention. Right now, Bill Clinton and Janet Reno are
in fat trouble. Since the president is so anxious to counsel with Russia, he might do well to
consider Dostoyevksy.

In Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov prostrates
himself to the famous Holy Elder Zosima, and cries: "Shame is what makes me such a great a
Buffoon. ... What can I do to inherit eternal life?"

Zosima tells him he already knows what he needs to do: "Renounce drunkenness,
intemperance of tongue, voluptuousness ... and above everything else, stop telling lies. ... The
main thing is that you stop telling lies to yourself." It was good advice for Karamazov and it
is still good advice for Bill Clinton and Janet Reno.

About six years ago, I was interviewing James Collier on the radio about his book
"Votescam." In the course of the interview he made some scurrilous and outrageous charges
against Janet Reno. He said she was known to be an aggressive lesbian predator, and a drunk. At
the time I jumped on him and said "... Jim you can't say that! You'll get your butt sued to hell
and back." He indicated he wanted to have Reno sue him. She didn't, and hasn't.

Last week I interviewed Jack Thompson. He is a Florida lawyer who had run against Janet
Reno ten years ago for the office of Dade County State Attorney. Thompson also would like
for Janet Reno to sue him. A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal printed a letter from
him which noted that when Lanny Davis vetted the Reno nomination for Attorney General in
1993, Thompson gave Davis "information, which could be corroborated by multiple sources
wholly independent of me, that Reno was unfit to practice law, let alone serve as this country's
top cop." Thompson went on to delineate the old claims of Reno's aggressive lesbian
lifestyle, use of calls girls, drunk driving stops, and capped it off by claiming she was being
blackmailed, by both Florida organized crime, and by her boss, Bill Clinton.

Now, this is old news in the rumor mill venue, but the fact the respected mainstream's Vast
Right Wing Conspiracy co-conspirator, The Wall Street Journal, published Thompson's letter is
significant.

Reno, according to Thompson, had had multiple drunk driving incidents and engaged in some
embarrassing sexual escapades. Thompson says Carmen "Crystal" Kazim claims to have been a
call girl providing sexual services to Reno. Thompson also quotes John Gigliotti (from Pat
Robertson's security detail) who says Michael Eppinger, an alleged organized crime figure in
Miami supposedly has a video of Reno at a sex orgy he (Eppinger) arranged. Eppinger also
apparently has ties to the Clinton Administration, having had VIP status at Clinton's Summit of
the Americas.
The advice of the Elder to Karamazov continued "The one who lies to himself and believes his
own lies comes to a point where he can distinguish no truth either within himself or around him,
and thus enters into a state of disrespect towards himself and others." Think about it ... both
Clinton and Reno have consistently and routinely lied to themselves, AND to the American
people. "Respecting no one, he loves no one, and to amuse and divert himself in the absence
of love, he gives himself up to his passions and his vulgar delights and becomes a complete animal
in his vices, and all of it from lying to other people and himself. ..." Wow, Zosima couldn't
have been talking about Clinton and Reno. Dostoyevsky wrote those words in 1880. He
concluded his advice by saying, "The one who lies to himself is often quick to take offense.
After all, it is sometimes rather enjoyable to feel insulted, is it not? For the person knows that no
one has insulted him, and that he himself has thought up the insult and has told lies as an
ornament, has exaggerated to create a certain impression, has seized on a word and made a
mountain out of a molehill -- is well aware of this, and yet the very first to feign being insulted,
feeling insulted to the point of pleasure, to the point of great satisfaction, and for that very reason
ends up nurturing a true sense of animosity."

Jack Thompson first told the story of Reno's problems in 1987. He notes he did not do it
lightly then, and he does not do so lightly now. Furthermore he states he is prepared to testify to
everything he says, and more under oath.

At least two Congressmen have been provided not only a detailed litany of Thompson's
charges, but names, and phone numbers, of those prepared to corroborate his claims. What they
do or don't do with that information will be illustrative.

Gary Aldrich in Unlimited Access revealed that Reno did not have the traditional background
check prior to her nomination. THAT is Unprecedented. When a certain Florida
official was asked why Reno had never been gifted a judgeship, the response was "...
come on, Janet could never pass the background check."

Insight magazine recently noted that friends of Reno's are concerned about her health. "One
federal prosecutor ... said Reno has physically deteriorated rapidly in the last few months."
According to Insight, "In the last month there's been mounting speculation within the
department that Reno might resign for health reasons by the end of the year. ..."

IF (and it is a big noxious "if") Reno were to go, there would be no attorney general to
appoint new independent counsels. A long, protracted (and no doubt contentious) confirmation
would proceed, and sands would continue to fall through the hour glass. "Deny, delay, destroy"
we have been told is the standing operating procedure of the Clintonistas.

Can even the masters of spin effectively manage a multiple front war? Only time (Clinton's
most intimate ally) can tell. Meanwhile, the president is off to Russia, intent on ignoring the
unsolicited advice he grandly offered the then beleaguered President Richard Nixon when (in
the frothy wake of all the Watergate stuff) he also sought colder climes.